The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Chicago, continued on the 18th, and
eight additional failures were an
nounced, among them those OF Crosby
q Co. and NJ. S. Robinson ~ Co., large
firms. Early in the day &. j. Kershaw
81 Co. announced that they were able
to pay all their clearing house differ
ences and to margin below the market,
but this proved to be a mistake. The
funds in bank to their account were
garn'sheed or tied up in some way, and
they failed to go through. Later in the
day they sent a communication to the
Board saying that they expected to pay
in full next morning.
Two new cases of yellow fever
were reported on the 10th, in Key
West, making a total Of 20 to date.
Sixteen patients are now under treat
ment, three have recovered and ten
died.
The trouble In the Chicago wheat
market continued on the 10th, Kershaw
81 Co., being unable to meet their obi
cations. There were fifteen failures in
all on the 18th, with 1851, 600 liabili.
ties. Including the three large failures
on Tuesday, the liabilities aggregate
utdIil g@.UJO, OpOs All tuuibiOudi al
uIe was announced on the afternoon of
the 10Th, that of John J.. Byrant s. Co.,
with liabilities estimated at $3.50, 600.
The suspension was also announced Of
Grifiths, Marshall Il Co., Of Minneapo-
lis and Duluth.
"A report was received at MIN
neapolis, on the evening of the 10th,
that a tornado had visited Grand
Forks, Dakota, killing four men.
Samuel Meyers, Superintendent of
the Miami County, Indiana, Asylum
for the Poor, vas arrested on the 10th
on the charge Of assaulting and Sc
verely beating helpless female inmates
of the asylum. The bodies of several
of the poor women gave evidence Of the
beatings.
Particulars of the tornado in Da-
kota on the afternoon of the 10th have
been received, In Grand Forks twenty
five buildings, including the. Catholic
church and the University of North
Dakota, was destroyed, and four per-
sons were killed. Ten persons were
severely injured. In East Grand
Forks fourteen buildings were de-
SbIOyOu anu WV DullulllHo DlOWA away
A railroad train was blown from the
track four miles from the town and
rolled over twice, severely lniuring
many persons. At Marvel and Ardock
many buildings were demolished and
two persons injured, and in Walle
township one man was killed.
"A despatch from Shenandoah,
Penna., says the storm which pre-
vailed in that section on the after
noon of the 18th, did considerable
damage. A number of collierIes we're
flooded and compelled te stop oper-
atoms. A heavy wind and rain
storm passed over Galena and other
points near the Sassafras river, in
Maryland, on the evening of the 18th,
doing much damage to trees, wheat
and outbulldings. No casualties were
reported.
a passenger train and a freight
train OH the Schuylkill Valley Railroad,
collided on the morning of the 18th at
Parker's Landing, north of Phoenix
vile. Charles De Haven. fireman, was
killed, and George BaXson, engineer,
severely injured. Two freight trains
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, collided,
on the morning Of the 18th, near Rob.
rerstown, in Lancaster county. An
engine and five cars were wrecked, and
the tracks were blocked for several
hours.
The paper and rag warehouse of
NJ. T. Homer & Co., in Baltimore, was
damaged by fire on the 18th, to the
extent of $50, 600. Fully insured. The
Globe Carbon Works in Cleveland,
Ohio, were buried on the morning OF
the 18th. Loss, $4,000.
The latest reports of the burning
of the steamer Champlain, off Charlie
voix, Michigan, show that of the 81 per-
SONS on board only 81 are known to be
saved. BY an explosion Of gas in the
Twin Shaft at Pittston junction,
Penna., on the morning of the 18th,
five men were terribly burned and in
jured, two of whom Patrick Barrett
and Edward Mooney, were not expect
ed to recover. The disaster was caused
tY a naked light lgnitiDg the gas as the
men were descending the shaft. The
force of the explosion blew rock, coal
and timber out OF the shaft and shat
tered the head house at the top INTO
! splinteTs. While James Walsh and
Henry Stricken were at work near a
large oaken door IN the House of Cor
rection at Chicago, on the 18th, a gust
of wind blew the door from its hinges
and 1t tell upon the men. killing Walsh
and fatally injuring Stricken. Mrs.
Hopper and her two-year-old child
were fatally burned by the explosion of
a can of oil at Mansfield, Penna., on the
I ~, nrpfn. Af tho 10Th IDnfrinK Eioutp
a plumber, was killed in Washington,
on the 18th, by stepping over the edge
of a two-story building on which he
was at work.
While Joseph Smalley and wife
were walking on the highway near the
New York and New England Rail.
road, in Duchess county, New York,
on the 18th, the woman. seeing a
train approaching, ran down to the
track in front of the engine. Her
hush ind followed her and both were
struck and killed. There seems no
doubt that she intended to kill her.
self. Her husband had repeatedly
beaten her. and he was drunk at the
time of their death. Near Roanoke,
Virginia, on the morning of the 18th,
Charles Shelley was shot and killed by
George WINNER, apparently without
p~rovocation. Frank Mingrel was
stabbed to death by Henry Dilletoch,
in a saloon quarrel III Chicago on the
morning Of the 18th. l.. G. Bledsoe
was shot and killed by j. IL. Rhimes,
in Rayville, Louisiana, on the 18th.
Both, 1t Is said, were "highly res
pected citizens" The cause of the
murder is unknown. Albert Brum-
nell. aged 10 years, was shot and
mortally wounded by another youth
named Michael Stag, at st. Joseph,
Missouri, on the evening Of the 18th.
Stag Imagined that Brummell was
trying to usurp him in the affections
Of a schoolgirl
during a circus performance at
New Lisbon. Ohio, on the evening of
the 18th, an elephant became unruly
and attacked and dangerously injured
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